Seasonal change in vertical distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria and their nitrification in temperate forest soil

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-35

  Onodera, Yuki ^a   Nakagawa, Tatsunori ^a   Takahashi, Reiji ^a   Tokuyama, Tatsuaki ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; amoA; Forest soil; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARCHAEAL DNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEASON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TREE;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOSPIRA;

EID: 77349105112     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME09179     Document Type: Article

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